Bill Cosby freed from prison after court overturns sex assault conviction

“America’s Dad’’-turned-sex fiend Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday afternoon — looking feeble but flashing a peace sign — hours after his sex-assault conviction was overturned in a stunning court ruling.

The 83-year-old disgraced TV legend was whisked from the State Correctional Institute-Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pa., northwest of Philadelphia, in a white small car and driven to his mansion in Elkins Park less than an hour away.

The ex-con, dressed in a maroon short-sleeve shirt and gray slacks with his white face mask on his chin, needed help getting out of the front passenger seat of the car when he arrived at his rustic, gated home, which is shrouded in trees, according to ABC-TV footage.

But Cosby mustered the strength to raise his right hand and give the peace sign to a news helicopter flying overhead, while a man helped him walk into the house, according to the video. 

CBS footage from the ground showed Cosby being helped along the path to his stunning abode. 

“This is justice — and justice for black America,” Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, said in a statement, according to MSNBC. “This is the justice Mr. Cosby has been fighting for.” 

Wyatt, saying he was speaking on behalf of the family, added that “charges should never have been brought” against Cosby because of an immunity deal that the fallen star had struck with prosecutors decades before he was put on trial, CNN said.

“I want to thank the attorneys who successfully argued his appeal and especially Mrs. Cosby who stood strong and was here for Mr. Cosby every step of the way and supported every idea and strategy from the attorneys and the team and she always knew that Mr. Cosby was innocent,” Wyatt said, referring to Cosby’s long-suffering wife, Camille.

Cosby was freed from SCI-Phoenix after spending about two and a half years behind bars on three counts of aggravated indecent assault involving accuser Andrea Constand.

He had been sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.

In addition to Constand, five other women testified at trial that Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted them, too, and scores more accusers have stepped forward over the years to accuse him of everything from sexual misconduct to rape.

Cosby himself admitted in a damning deposition in a civil suit Constand had filed against him years earlier that he liked to drug women before having sex with them.

The problem was, Cosby had spoken to prosecutors under what both sides said at the time was an immunity deal that allowed him to dodge criminal prosecution in the case. 

Then-Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. has said he agreed to give Cosby immunity because “I was hopeful that I had made Ms. Constand a millionaire” from the civil suit.

She ended up settling the case for an undisclosed sum. Her lawyer has said her camp was unaware of any immunity deal with Cosby.

The county prosecutor who replaced Castor ended up pursuing criminal charges against Cosby over Constand’s allegations, noting that the alleged deal was never put in writing and saying it didn’t preclude future prosecution.   

Cosby, the former loveable headliner of TV’s hit “The Cosby Show,” was put on trial in 2017, but the case ended in a hung jury. He was then retried and convicted in late September 2018 and imprisoned. 

But the state’s high court, in a ruling issued Wednesday, said the immunity deal had to be upheld — and that Cosby’s conviction, which at least some jurors said was helped along by his deposition, had to be tossed.  

With Post wires